General Farm/irrigation Worker

Job description

Worker will be required to perform a variety of duties related to the production of onions, wheat, corn, sugar beets and hops. Most of the work activities during the overall contract period will be related to general farm work, irrigation and crop production.
Employees will apply techniques as instructed by the employer when carrying out the following responsibilities: maintain, drive, attach, and operate farm implements/tractors/equipment/trucks to till and/or disk soil, plant, cultivate, fertilize, spray and harvest crops; make mechanical adjustments and repairs on farm machinery; move hand lines/pipe for irrigation; may mix and/or spray chemicals (according to appropriate restrictive use laws, when/if applicable); remove undesirable and excess growth from crops, farm grounds; perform general cleanup/maintenance of farm areas, corrugates, and ditches surrounding fields; drive, load/unload trucks; operate vehicle, motor bike, or all-terrain vehicle in the course of performing duties; drive bus/van from housing to worksite; replace/repair fencing. Assist our main mechanics in the maintenance shop.
Drip Irrigation: walk behind tractor to install and lay drip irrigation equipment in fields, move hoses, remove drip irrigation and layflat from fields prior to harvest; ensure layflat spools correctly when removing from field; maintain/repair drip irrigation; flush lines.
Corn job description: de-tassel corn.
Onion job descriptions: plant onions by walking behind tractors, observe the planter (unclog planter if necessary); weed onions using farm hand tools to remove weeds from fields; general tool use to build/repair bins; measure/cut wood to proper length; place wood on jigs; nail using air gun; dump onion bags into bins; operate heister for stacking bins; drive onion truck and haul onion bins.
Onion Harvesting: hand harvest onions; clip ends off onions and toss the tops back in the field; place in bags and lay in field to mature; even rows for harvest; gather bagged onions from field and transfer onions into bins. Remove unwanted debris from binning line; drive/operate equipment to stack/organize bins at onion storage.
Hop Production: maintain/repair trellis; including replacement of old hop poles and installation of new poles on new ground, fix/replace/install wire; prepare fields for planting; dig and tamp post holes; lay cement; install poles; line poles; drive/operate equipment to install wire and poles; put straws out in field to mark where plants will go; plant hop roots/pots; dig/cut hop roots; use compressor to blow dirt away from hop root; use cutting tool to dig hop roots; divide/bundle hop roots and place in bins; plant/replant/transport roots; attach twine between trellis and ground; drive stringing cart; ride on farm implement cart, approx. 18 ft. above the ground and hand tie twine to trellis; place metal W clips into the ground with gun; repair broken/loose twine; dampen twine; break twine bails; stack twine; train vines around twine/string; remove vines/broken strings/ weeds and excess debris from growing hop plants; haul hop poles and hop trellis tear out.